Environmental Quiz
Has double the carbon footprint of a family of four in a car.
Four plane passengers
The other name for the geological period that ended 12,000 years ago. (___ Age)
Ice Age
A _________is a storm with very powerful wind.
Hurricane
fuels that originate from plants and animals that existed in the geological past (for example, millions of years ago).
Fossil fuel
The Daphne du Maurier story in which nature fights back against people in an unexpected way.
The Birds
The area where people dump their waste, which emit hazardous gasses.
Landfill
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film about a dinosaur theme park, based on the novel by Michael Crichton.
Jurrasic Park
A ______ _____ is an unusual rise in water caused by extreme storms.
Storm surge
(of a species) seriously at risk of extinction.
Endangered
At the age of 15, this person arranged the school strikes to highlight the need for action on climate change.
Greta Thunberg
A classic example of overhunting, this bird became extinct in 1662.
Dodo
The purpose of reintroducing the Wooly Mammoth to “Pleistocene Park”.
To slow the melting of the permafrost.
Unscramble this word.
tsyccair
Scarcity
a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organization, or community.
Carbon footprint
Mark Watney, an environmental engineer stranded on the Red Planet, is the title character of this 2011 Andy Weir novel and its film adaptation.
The Martian
The Arctic’s underground layer of frozen rock and soil.
Permafrost
The number of years since the extinction of the Wooly Mammoth.
4,000
What is one of the ways that climate change makes hurricanes more dangerous?
Warmer air and ocean temperatures allow hurricanes to pick up more energy.
Higher sea levels mean that storm surges are bigger and cause more damage.
Someone who has a _____ ______ is good at gardening and looking after plants.
green thumb
A classic Dr. Seuss children's book about the plight of the environment, featuring a title character who "speaks for the trees".
The Lorax
The storm that left 53,000 Texans homeless in 2017, due to flooding.
Hurricane Harvey
The scientists responsible for “Pleistocene Park”.
Sergey and Nikita Zimov
What are the two ways in which climate change affects wildfires?
Periods of drought are more common and last longer; less moisture in the air means that things catch fire more easily.
Trees weakened by drought are more likely to be killed by insects such as Bark Beetles.
(Idiom)
When you are past the difficult or dangerous part of a process and you are now safe
Out of the woods
A major effort to engineer environmental sustainability is the attempt to breed bacteria that can eat these polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle.
Plastics